THE CONCEPTS OF MINORITIES AND MASSES IN THE PHILOSOPHY POLITICS OF ORTEGA Y GASSET

It is intended to analyze the concepts of "minorities" and "masses" from the philosophy politics of Ortega y Gasset presented in the workmanship the Rebellion of the Masses. Such concepts keep a topologic of two species of men, to know; the "special man" and the "man mass". From the understanding of this topologic, one becomes necessary to investigate the philosophy politics of the author and its relation with the possible limitations of the democracy while space of popular participation, a time that some thinkers attribute to Ortega y Gasset the heading of "theoretician of the elites". Under the conceptual look that keeps to the philosopher concerning "minorities" and "masses", he intends yourself to analyze the origin or not of these critical from a systematic study of these concepts cardinals in the workmanship the Rebellion of the Masses.